Word: roped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trains did not long survive their most eminent practitioner, Jesse James. Much different in technique are the raids still made on freight trains. Freight car robbers work often on moving trains, choose sparsely settled country where a highway runs beside the tracks. Swinging off from box car roofs on rope ladders, they break the seals on the doors, climb in and toss out everything they can lay their hands on. Confederates in trucks pick up the loot...
...getting the short end of the rope this year, one other solution presents itself. That is to give the men not admitted to Houses the same privileges as those who are lucky enough to live in the river palaces already. This would mean that about thirty additional non-residents would use the facilities of each House. Such an increase, though perhaps tending to nullify the effort to make the Houses "individual", would not overburden the commissariat, the common rooms, or the libraries...
...with them. The Government would almost certainly be forced to make them redeemable at par-in paper money-the ultimate spilling of the beans. The President is no fiat money man. That leaves only reduced spending. But isn't that political ruin? Is this the end of the rope...
...Franklin Roosevelt thought the New Deal had reached its fiscal rope's end, he did not show it. He buckled doggedly down to work with pencil, paper, Secretary Morgenthau, Budget Director Bell, Deputy Relief Administrator Aubrey Williams. This week he sent a special message to Congress asking for $1,500,000,000 to carry next year's relief burden, and acknowledging that his midwinter estimates of fiscal position would no longer hold up because income taxes and other revenue had fallen $604,000,000 under expectations. He now foresaw a deficit on June...
They arrived in Rotterdam in time to see Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina seize a hatchet of steel inlaid with gold, and sever with one blow the launching rope of the largest liner The Netherlands have built, the 33,000-ton Nieuw Amsterdam slated to maiden-voyage to Manhattan in the Spring...